{"title":"Political activism","description":"Books on the subject of Political activism","products":[{"product_id":"vernacular-rights-cultures-hardback-9781108832625","title":"Vernacular Rights Cultures (Hardback) 9781108832625","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVernacular Rights Cultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTracks the critical conceptual vocabularies and the gendered subaltern politics of rights and human rights in South Asia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSumi Madhok (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108832625, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 February 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.1 x 2 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'How do you decolonize human rights? You begin by paying attention to how people pursue rights in most of the world. Seemingly obvious, what this book does is urge us not to see subaltern rights struggles as merely talking back to the centre. If we examine the deployment of rights by tenant farmers in Pakistan, Indigenous peoples in India, desert dwellers in Rajasthan, we can find those moments when an epistemic shift takes place and suddenly we see peeping through the human rights frames we know so well an alternate universe where food security is possible, forests are preserved, and people demand not equality but a future. Through her deeply attentive scholarship Madhok offers us the best gift of all: critique with the possibility of transformation.' Sherene H. Razack, author of Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. Through combining ethnographic investigations with political theory and philosophy, it goes beyond critiquing the Eurocentrism of global human rights, in order to document and examine the different political imaginaries, critical conceptual vocabularies, and gendered political struggles for rights and justice that animate subaltern mobilisations in 'most of the world'. Vernacular Rights Cultures demonstrates that these subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. An Introduction: Vernacular Rights Cultures in South Asia and Decolonizing Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e 2. Human Rights, Political Agency, and Refusing the Politics of Origins\u003cbr\u003e 3. Assembling a Feminist Historical Ontology of Haq in South Asia\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Political Imaginaries of Haq: 'Citizenship' and 'Truth'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Resisting Developmentalism and the Military: Haq as a Cosmological Idea and an Islamic Ideal\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conceptual Diversity, Feminist Historical Ontology and a Critical Reflexive Politics of Location: A Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political activism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political activism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20activism%20%5BJPW%5D%22\"\u003eJPW\u003c\/a\u003e], Human rights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human rights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20rights%20%5BJPVH%5D%22\"\u003eJPVH\u003c\/a\u003e], Central government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Central government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Central%20government%20%5BJPQ%5D%22\"\u003eJPQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e], Gender studies, gender groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies, gender groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies,%20gender%20groups%20%5BJFSJ%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001747231000,"sku":"9781108832625","price":61.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108832625i.jpg?v=1696727121"},{"product_id":"activists-forever-long-term-impacts-of-political-activism-hardback-9781108428729","title":"Activists Forever?; Long-Term Impacts of Political Activism (Hardback) 9781108428729","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eActivists Forever?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLong-Term Impacts of Political Activism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUsing a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOlivier Fillieule (Edited by), Erik Neveu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108428729, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e354 pages, 4 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eActivists Forever? explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life. While much of the research in this area has focused on the motivations of entire protests groups, the editors of this volume propose an approach that focuses on actors. This book examines political involvement's socio-biographical effects, or the ways in which political commitment generates or modifies dispositions to act, think, and perceive, in a way that is either consistent with or in contrast to the results of previous socialization. The contents explore what political involvement leads to rather than what causes involvement. Using a variety of case studies, this collection of essays provides global coverage with a focus on participation in major protests in the 1960s and significantly broadens our understanding by looking outside the United States. These essays look at the lasting effects of activists' knowledge, connections, and symbolic capital on their future participation in politics, as well as their personal and professional lives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: activists' trajectories in space and time Olivier Fillieule and Erik Neveu\u003cbr\u003e Part I. From Shades of Red (or Blue) to Shades of Grey: The Ageing of Yesterday's Activists Richard Flacks\u003cbr\u003e 1. The diversity of activist outcomes: the role of ideology in shaping trajectories of participation Catherine Corrigall-Brown\u003cbr\u003e 2. Biographical impacts of activism in the French 'May '68' Julie Pagis\u003cbr\u003e 3. Life stories of former French activists of 'May '68':using biographies to investigate the outcomes of social movements Erik Neveu\u003cbr\u003e 4. Women in political activism: the biographical resonances of the '68 student movement in a Latin American context Guadalupe Olivier\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Terrorist Violence, State Repression and Activists' Experiences Jocelyn Viterna\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Join up', they said! The biographical consequences of engagement in Morocco for the 1970s generation and its children Joseph Hivert and Frédéric Vairel\u003cbr\u003e 6. From militancy to activism: life trajectories of Sikh women combatants Laurent Gayer\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Married forever', activists forever? What the multi-level and interactionist approaches to the study of 'exit' reveals about disengagement from radical organizations in contemporary Turkey Jordi Tejel\u003cbr\u003e 8. Contextualizing the biographical outcomes of provisional IRA former activists: a structure-agency dynamic Lorenzo Bosi\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Biographical Trajectories in Times of Transition. Social Movement Activists into Politicians? Gilles Dorronsoro\u003cbr\u003e 9. When prophecy succeeds: the political failure of dissidents in the new Czech democracy Magdaléna Hadjiisky\u003cbr\u003e 10. From grassroots activism to the cabinet, round-trip: the puzzling trajectory of a peasant leader in post-Communist Poland Cédric Pellen\u003cbr\u003e 11. Red t-shirt or executive suit? About some biographical consequences of contentious engagement in the workers' party in Recife, Brazil Camille Goirand\u003cbr\u003e Addendum: life history as a tool for sociological inquiry Olivier Fillieule\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Demonstrations \u0026amp; protest movements [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Demonstrations \u0026amp; protest movements\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Demonstrations%20\u0026amp;%20protest%20movements%20%5BJPWF%5D%22\"\u003eJPWF\u003c\/a\u003e], Political activism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political activism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20activism%20%5BJPW%5D%22\"\u003eJPW\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Social research \u0026amp; statistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social research \u0026amp; statistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20research%20\u0026amp;%20statistics%20%5BJHBC%5D%22\"\u003eJHBC\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005365244184,"sku":"9781108428729","price":80.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108428729i_0c8c8d14-3327-4e6c-8d23-9796a1608e90.jpg?v=1696699821"},{"product_id":"between-the-state-and-islam-hardback-9780521783521","title":"Between the State and Islam (Hardback) 9780521783521","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBetween the State and Islam\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Middle Eastern peoples in the past two centuries lived outside the region's politico-religious structures.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles E. Butterworth (Edited by), I. William Zartman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521783521, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 January 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.506 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eUntil recently, the study of the Middle East has focused almost exclusively on Islam and on the regime, especially on its non-democratic aspects. It has done so at the expense of accounting fully for the forces of scepticism, liberty, and creativity that struggle against Islamic conformism and state hegemony. Strangely, there seems to be no scholarly awareness of the simple fact that however influential religion appears in word and deed, however evident the trappings of state authority, people come into being, thrive, marry, raise families, think, laugh, and cry without regard to - indeed, sometimes in utter defiance of - the strictures of religious or state authority. This volume examines how Middle Eastern peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries lived and flourished while trying to shape their political and religious surroundings outside the formal structures of established religion and the state.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: between the State and Islam Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Nineteenth Century: Preface Charles E. Butterworth\u003cbr\u003e 1. On what is between, even beyond, the paradigms of the State and Islam Charles E. Butterworth\u003cbr\u003e 2. The impact of technology change on the nineteenth-century Arab world Antoine B. Zahland\u003cbr\u003e 3. An Islamic political formula in transformation: Islam, identity, and nationalism in the history of the Volga Tatars Serif Mardin\u003cbr\u003e 4. Muslim opposition thinkers in the nineteenth century Said Bensaid Alaoui\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Twentieth-Century: Preface I. William Zartman\u003cbr\u003e 5. Against the taboos of Islam: anti-conformist tendencies in contemporary Arab\/Islamic thought As'ad AbuKhalil\u003cbr\u003e 6. Democratic thought in the Arab world: an alternative to the patron state Iliya Harik\u003cbr\u003e 7. Political parties between state power and Islamist opposition Ibrahim A. Karawan\u003cbr\u003e 8. Liberal professionals in the contemporary Arab world Timothy J. Piro\u003cbr\u003e 9. Daniel Lerner revisited, the audio-visual media and its reception: two North African cases Jean Leca, Meriem Verges and Mounia Bennani-Chraibi\u003cbr\u003e 10. Islam, the state, and democracy: the contradictions I. 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